Your very thin diabetic daughter orders milk at Wendy's because she is too embarassed to ask for diet soda because she always gets the strange looks. Mom gets the looks too.

There is a suspicious pause at the drive through window after you order a "Happy Meal with a diet soda."

Your "swimming supply checklist" includes a bottle of chocolate syrup and a spoon.

Your child says, "Do I HAVE to take that nasty tasting medicine? Will you ask the doctor if it comes in an injectable form?"

Your pantry consists of one entire shelf devoted to diabetes supplies, one entire shelf devoted to juice boxes, Night Bites, granola bars and peanut butter crackers, and the one remaining shelf haphazardly crammed with everything else the family uses.

You wake up the whole house with the sound of a horrible screem when you accidentally stick your daughter's best friend (at 2:00am) during a slumber party.

You realize the saying "Don't cry over spilt milk" was said by someone who never had to look at that milky puddle and try and guess how many carbs it contains.

Your 4 year old non D child goes food shopping with you and asks how many carbs for eveything in the the supermarket.

You not only find test strips everywhere, but also cotton balls with little cirles of blood on them.

Your newly diagnosed child asks if the communion at church is a free food.

You don't care what your child wears, as long as his meter, poker and glucose fit into the pockets.

Someone asks you how your diabetic child is doing and really means it, and you want to cry because someone cares.

All your lunchbags have the initials CVS.

Your child gets excited and points to the same meter on the pharamacy shelf that he has at home.

You yell for your child to come check his sugar, and everyone comes because they know its meal time.

You've had to plead with your child to finish their chips, and on other days you've had to said no to them when they ask for a piece of fruit.

You spend the afternoon at the counter with your child giving "insulin" to an orange so that they can learn to do it on their own.

"Date night" consists of slipping out without the kids to run to the pharmacy for prescription refills.

Complete strangers come up to your daughter, lift their shirt as high as their waist band and say "Look, I have one too." (meaning a pump, not a belly button!)

You are always shopping for the perfect pocket book, one that can hold all your child's supplies and snacks and still look somewhat stylish (rather than like a small suitcase).

Your 6-year old non-d child goes through the store looking at all her favorite snacks, calling aloud the carbohydrate count on the package, making horror faces and putting them back on the shelf!

You tell them at the food table at a party to "stop eating so many vegetables and eat some cookies" and everyone looks at you like you're crazy.

You have enough food in your supply bag, when you get to the inlaws they think you brought dinner with you because they think "fat free" is the same as sugar free.

While watching interviews on TV, and the person being interviewed is asked, "What three things could you not live without?" your D Child says "I know my Answer! My Meter, My Insulin and Needles" and you cry because you knows it's true.

Your child comes home from school with an invitation to a birthday party and you call the parents and say, "We would love to come."

Your two-year-old asks her grandmother if her inhaler used for asthma is "sugar-free".

Your child is waiting in line to get a soda and you ask him if he's too high, and notice everyone around you is looking at you like you are.

Your newly diagnosed diabetic child wakes during the night to go to the bathroom and is shaking and you're convinced his sugar is dropping and you test him only to find that he is 160 - and then you realize that the air conditioner is on high and your husband is freezing too.

You're having an amorous moment with your mate and you suddenly hear, "Mom, I'm feeling low."

Your diabetic toddler sees an anti-drug commercial on TV and points out that the person needs a shot.

On a camping trip, your child's sleeping bag is optional but the measuring cups are not.

In December, your D child is asked by someone if they're looking forward to Christmas and your child answers, "I'm looking forward to a cure."

Your non-d baby's favorite rattle is three coins in an old strip canister.

Even though your child is thin you have a shopping cart full of lean cuisine and diet pop and the cashier looks at you like you are starving your child.

Every meal turns into a math equation.

Your child needs an upper GI test and you ask how many carbohydrates are in barium.

You're at a birthday party and the cake is being handed out and your D child says "It doesn't look good enough for a shot."

Your child falls and before you ask if they're okay you ask, "How's your pump site?"

Your two diabetic teens compete for the lowest (best?) BG without going low, and since both of them are math experts, you ask "What's your blood sugar?" and they answer "take my age, add 100, divide by 2, subtract 27, multiply 50, ...," which really means "I'm going to the kitchen for a snack and stalling for time so you don't kill me."

Your 8 year old child pleads for a surgery that will take diabetes away and asks you every six months if she'll have diabetes forever.

You correct the numbers in the carb counting book.

Your diabetic and non-diabetic children get into an argument and the non-diabetic says, "Check your blood sugar!", which only eggs the diabetic on.

Your child with diabetes says, "Mom, can we go to the movies? I'll take extra insulin."

Your three year old child already knows his two and three digit numbers from reading his glucose meter.

You check the diaper bag three times before you go anywhere and find that you leave with enough snacks to feed an army but no diapers!

You have a baby monitor for a 17 year old

Your plan for the day is based on when your diabetic child eats breakfast -- if it's too late, it can mess up the schedule for the entire day!

Last Updated: Wednesday December 10, 2014 14:14:00
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